Anticreeping rail-lock.



IE SAS PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM E. SHARP, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO GRIP NUT COMPANY, OF'

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

ANTICREEPING RAIL-LOCK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. '7, 1916.

Application filed. August 5, 1915. Serial No. 43,763.

To this end my invention consists in the novel construction, arrangement and combination of parts herein shown and described, and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings, wherein like reference characters indicate like or corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a side elevation of my invention, showing a rail in cross section seated therein, the position slightly exaggerated to more clearly show the construction. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, with rail shown in dotted lines, and Fig. 3 is an end view, showing the bolt in place.

As shown in the drawings, 1 indicates a suitable base or body provided at one end with an overhanging shoulder 2 constructed to engage and extend above and partially over one edge of the rail flange 3 seated on the device. The opposite end 4 of the device is strongly constructed, and has formed therein a bolt hole upwardly and outwardly inclined, as shown, in which is positioned a cooperating bolt 5, with its threaded end upward provided with a suitable nut 6. The inclination of the bolt is such that the lower edge of the tilted nut tends to conform to the upper face of the flange near its edge,

engaging the same, and as the nut is turned down on the bolt, forces the flange firmly against the engaging shoulder 2, and at the same time firmly locks the proximate edge of the flange to the device.

The marginal edges of the device are strongly reinforced as at 7 8, 9, 10 and 11, one of said depending reinforced parts, as 11, being adapted to be positioned against the side of a tie 12, as shown in Fig. 3. It will thus appear that firmly locking the lock to the rail, and with the side of the lock firmly contacting with the bedded tie, tends to prevent the rail from creeping, as stated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is An anticreeping rail lock, comprising a suitable body provided with a depending part adapted to lie in contact with the side of a tie, said body having a rail seat upon its upper surface with an overhanging shoulder upon one end adapted to engage and partly embrace the flanged edge of a rail seated thereon, the opposite end having formed therein an upwardly and outwardly inclined bolt hole, in combination with a w. o. cook, S. S. SWASEY.

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